Computer collecting humor.

From: Hotze <photze_at_batelco.com.bh>
Date: Tue Nov 4 06:56:41 1997

Also, 88 (8088), 87 (487, 8087, etc.) and many other numbers. With macs,
there's a whole slew of numbers that I don't want to get into.

        Tim D. Hotze

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From: Riccardo Romagnoli <chemif_at_mbox.queen.it>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Computer collecting humor.
Date: Tuesday, November 04, 1997 4:49 PM

At 10.36 04/11/97 +0000, you wrote:

>Which reminds me. Which word lengths have been used by (binary) computers?
>Off the top of my head :
>
>4 (Intel 4004, etc)
>8 (Far too many to list)
>12 (PDP8, PDP12, etc)
..omissis...
>What others?

 9 (Texas 99/4, 990/10, TMS 9900)
 86 (Intel Docet again)

Riccardo
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